These stark, vibrant photos take you inside the impoverished, culturally rich, crime-ridden immigrant slums of turn-of-the-century New York. "Bandit's Roost," a notorious hangout for the criminal element at 59 Mulberry Street in Little Italy, 1888. At the time, the area was among the most impoverished and crime-ridden in the entire city.This image comes from photographer and journalist Jacob Riis' 1890 work How The Other Half Lives, which helped reveal the blight among New York's immigrant neighborhoods. Read More...
The creature appears to be a hodgepodge of at least three species, and was likely displayed in 19th-century sideshows.Clark County Historical Society at the Heritage Center/FacebookThe “mermaid” seems to be a Frankenstein creation of monkey, fish, and reptile.
In 1906, a Navy sailor named L.C. Bishop returned home to Ohio from Japan with a curious souvenir: the remains of what appeared to be a tiny, clawed, grimacing “mermaid.” Now, researchers at Northern Kentucky University (NKU) are examining the object to see if they can decipher its origins. Read More...
Here's what famed animal experts have had to say about why shooting Harambe the gorilla was the Cincinnati Zoo's only option.Since Harambe, a silverback gorilla living at the Cincinnati Zoo, was shot and killed after a boy went into his enclosure last weekend, the court of public opinion has declared the gorilla’s death an outrage. Animal experts, however, are largely telling a different story.
Harambe spent ten tense minutes standing over the boy, even dragging him through the water surrounding his pen, before he was shot by zookeepers. Read More...
